Dinah Snipes Steveni on mon 4 apr 11
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Just reorganizing book shelves and old ceramics mags and got caught sitting=
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and reading yesterday -- still rainy up here on the left side -- and voila=
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in Jan/Feb 2007 Vol.13 No. 1 of Clay Times a comprehensive article "Making=
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Plates" by Bill van Gilder. Alas nothing about the firing which has been c=
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omprehensively answered by others. I use placing powder/sand mix spread ev=
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enly on all shelving which is stacked horiz after unloading my electric kil=
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n. Helps keep the base of the object moving freely in the heat-work and not=
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catch on a bare --hopefully you've bat-washed it -- shelf. It's like a per=
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sonal seminar in practice and techniques going back into those old issues o=
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f CM, CR etc. A very ancient issue of NZ Potter (1995)had a final para in a=
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n exhibition review which made me laugh out loud as the writer complained b=
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itterly that the pub's orange carpeting competed with the aesthetics of the=
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exhibition and should be replaced forthwith. But, on a more serious note, =
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a comment by Kevin Falconer saying that all quality from Rolling Cloud Pott=
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ery has "to be of exhibition standard every time". That's a good bar to set=
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for oneself, isn't it? Makes you really examine results and practice.
Dinah
Dianthus Ceramics
Mount Vernon, WA.
www.dinahsnipessteveni.com
"To obtain a certain thing, you have to become a certain person."
Zen Buddhist saying
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